Khrushchev: A Career /
Edward Crankshaw
- New York Viking Press 1966
- 311 p.
From log cabin to Red Square -- The child, then the man -- Revolution, chaos, civil war -- First steps of a very long climb -- More Stalinist than Stalin -- To Moscow! Perseverance and intrigue -- City politics, Moscow style -- "We have a beautiful metro!" -- The great purge : "Stalin is our banner! Stalin is our will!" -- Viceroy of the Ukraine -- 1939 : invader of Poland -- The great patriotic war -- Reconstruction, Russification -- Overture to the struggle for supremacy -- Stalin's end, Malenkov's challenge -- The chieftain finds his voice -- Old dogmas, new ideas -- - The secret speech and the world stage -- Victory : the dictator by consent -- A visionary imprisoned by his past.
Khrushchez: A Career is the story of a self made man who rose from peasant origins to become master of two hundred million Russians and a determining force in world affairs. Full-length biography, which also re-creates the "feel" of Russia from the chaos of Revolution to the ordered bureaucracy of today.